Choreographer, Teacher & Historian
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Anno Domini Festival, St Petersburg April 2005 |
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"A brilliant teacher - we must get her back!"
Diana Scrivener FCCM FGMS LRAD was trained at the Bush Davies Ballet School in Sussex and the Royal Academy of Dance in London, graduating from the Academy with a Licentiate Diploma. At college she studied extensively with the late Belinda Quirey MBE, a leading authority on dance history. She is now a specialist in the choreography and interpretation of early dance forms. She works in theatre and film as well as in education and training. | |
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Choreography
Her choreography has been performed widely in England and abroad, ranging from large-scale concerts to student productions. Her most recent film work this year has been 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows', with Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey Jnr, Jude Law and Noomi Rapace. In 2010 Diana was fortunate to work with Martin Scorsese on his 3D film 'Hugo Cabret', due for release in 2011, and in 2009, she worked alongside Sir Ridley Scott on 'Robin Hood', with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. She was Choreographer for the feature film 'Shanghai' which stars John Cusack, Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li and Ken Watanabe (due for release later in 2011). She was the Assistant Choreographer for the highly-acclaimed BAFTA and Oscar-winning film 'Elizabeth', a remake of 'The Four Feathers' and 'Casanova' (both starring the late Heath Ledger) 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'Asylum', 'The Libertine' starring Johnny Depp, and 'Bertie & Elizabeth' for Channel Four. She was featured in 'Time Tourists', a history programme made by Meridian Television. She was interviewed for the BBC Radio programme 'A Dance through Time' and worked as Dance Historian and Consultant on a documentary for Channel 4/Discovery entitled 'The Tournament - The Making of a Knight'.
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Theatre Credits
Theatre credits include 'A Christmas Carol', at the Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames last year (Choreographer, directed by Stephen Unwin), 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' for the Almeida Theatre Touring Company Ltd (Movement Consultant, directed by Ben Harrison) and 'Women Beware Women', a Royal Shakespeare Company production (Movement Assistant, directed by Laurence Boswell). |
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Performances, Workshops & Publications
Performance venues as a dancer have included the magnificent palace at Versailles, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, The Alhambra in Spain and London's Covent Garden and Shakespeare's Globe.
She is internationally renowned for conducting workshops specializing in the history of western dancing and has taught regularly at many of the Higher Education colleges in London which offer training in either dance or drama. Diana was guest tutor at Villanella, a dance school in St Petersburg which organizes an annual festival of historical and ethnic dance and is called Anno Domini. She taught a diversity of periods to an enthusiastic and dedicated group of 100 students, who came from Russia, Belarus and Latvia.
Students participating in one of Diana's Renaissance dance classes at the Anno Domini Festival in St Petersburg
Following on from this visit, Diana was invited to return to St Petersburg in October 2005, where she conducted another three days of master classes to a group of 30 students. In December of the same year, she visited Moscow for the first time and taught a week-end of Baroque Dance.
As a result of meeting some dancers from Latvia in St Petersburg, Diana travelled to Riga in May 2006 for a week-end of Renaissance and Elizabethan dance classes, culminating in concert there.
She was invited to the inaugral Festival of Historical dance in Tomsk, Western Siberia in September 2006. Diana taught classes from several different periods, at the Centre of Culture, Tomsk State University and participated in a concert during the Festival. She also appeared on television and gave several interviews to the local media. International engagements in 2007 included a return visit to Tomsk. In January 2009 she visited another city in Western Siberia, Novosibirsk, to teach at the first Festival of Early Dance and Culture there. This visit resulted in the birth of an interesting project. See News & Events for more information about it!
Publications include a two-part guide for acting students and the first book in a series of guides for teachers, in addition to articles in dance history journals and a paper on the role of Early Dance in Education given at the 1999 Early Dance Circle conference held at the Royal Society of Arts. (More details of the books may be found by clicking on the Publications tab above)
Diana was awarded a Fellowship of Curwen College of Music in November 2002, having submitted a thesis on Baroque choreography and was invited to serve on the Council in 2003. In September 2006 she became a Fellow of The Guild of Musicians and Singers.
She is also a member of the Dance Research Committee of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and the Early Dance Circle, as well as British Actors' Equity.
The picture below shows a class in progress in the Latvian capital Riga, in May 2006
Further information about organisations mentioned in this website may be found as follows:-
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